# EU countries by enterprise birth rate, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_birth_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Enterprise births in the year as a percentage of the enterprises active in the same year. A birth is a new enterprise created from scratch, not by a merger, break-up or reactivation.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-birth-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lithuania | 17.47 |
| 2 | Portugal | 16.08 |
| 3 | Malta | 14.39 |
| 4 | France | 14.23 |
| 5 | Latvia | 13.92 |
| 6 | Finland | 12.25 |
| 7 | Estonia | 12.05 |
| 8 | Croatia | 11.86 |
| 9 | Romania | 11.6 |
| 10 | Poland | 11.24 |
| 11 | Slovakia | 10.91 |
| 12 | Ireland | 10.83 |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 10.44 |
| 14 | Slovenia | 9.97 |
| 15 | Cyprus | 9.7 |
| 16 | Czechia | 9.56 |
| 17 | Spain | 9.42 |
| 18 | Greece | 9.12 |
| 19 | Sweden | 9.03 |
| 20 | Hungary | 8.59 |
| 21 | Luxembourg | 8.46 |
| 22 | Netherlands | 8.16 |
| 23 | Belgium | 8 |
| 24 | Italy | 7.94 |
| 25 | Germany | 7.78 |
| 26 | Denmark | 7.16 |
| 27 | Austria | 6.3 |